Alexandre Lacazette

[carlito'sway]

They'll lose him if someone steps in and pays the crazy money they want for him. Now I'm not saying he isn't any good but if he was REALLY good why the hell haven't any of Bayern, Barca, Real Madrid or Juve stepped in for him? Maybe because he ain't 50M Euros good....it's not like he's some secret gem. Someone will wait to get him in the last year of his contract when they won't have to pay an unrealistic price.

Exactly. Hopefully Arsenal is no that desperate.

 

[qwerty99]

They all talk too much. Reminds me of Wenger telling us every summer we weren't going to lose our best players.

As Gazidis said we can't compete with the top clubs, so we lose RVP and Fabregas without much of a fight and can't force clubs like Lyon and Liverpool into selling their best players. Even if those players want to come to us.

We're the nice guys in the football world.

 

[remains]

This guy won't be enough to win us the league even if we do sign him.

 

[redanddread]

As Gazidis said we can't compete with the top clubs, so we lose RVP and Fabregas without much of a fight and can't force clubs like Lyon and Liverpool into selling their best players. Even if those players want to come to us.

We're the nice guys in the football world.

It has nothing to do with being nice, it has everything to do with being prudent. In my naive eyes there's so much wastage of valuable resources in the football world (and yes we've wasted big money on talents we've had at the club) and we're continuing to see it. 20M to an agent for brokering a deal - you can buy a damn good player for that, yet some FAT cat agent is collecting that for a negotiation. Can't hate the playa but what a waste of money imo.

 

[carter777]

 

[Vinci]

Won't be surprised if PSG just pay up and bring him in, they are serious about winning the CL and no doubt want a quality back-up for Cavani.

 

[ModelGooner]

I want this guy here so bad. He's like a bigger stronger Defoe. Mahrez, Özil, Sanchez behind him would be

 

[MLK]

It has nothing to do with being nice, it has everything to do with being prudent. In my naive eyes there's so much wastage of valuable resources in the football world (and yes we've wasted big money on talents we've had at the club) and we're continuing to see it. 20M to an agent for brokering a deal - you can buy a damn good player for that, yet some FAT cat agent is collecting that for a negotiation. Can't hate the playa but what a waste of money imo.

Completely agree with this. The best paid people in world football are agents. How the **** can you square paying someone 25 million to negotiate a deal. Raiola has gotten like 3 years of Özil wages for two weeks of work. Work that he did while he was on a beach in Miami. **** that ****.

 

[Hunta]

£35m bid going in for Lacazette according to Jeremy 'I read Arsenal Mania' Wilson.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football...e-new-35-million-bid-for-alexandre-lacazette/

 

[blaze_of_glory]

 

[Hunta]

When you beat yousif and Marquis to transfer news.

 

[A_G]

John Cross should be releasing an identical article in a few minutes.

 

[Vinci]

When you beat yousif and Marquis to transfer news.

“Transfer news”.

 

[field442]

John Cross should be releasing an identical article in a few minutes.

Followed by Sami Mokbel. Seriously though, if we go back with £35m i'd applaud Aulas if he decided to spit in ****'s face.

 

[gkoat]

Between trying to reconcile the tabloids and exchange rates, unless I'm mistaken....35m pounds is a decent amount compared to our last one yes?

FWIW, the le equip publication that's talking about PSG's interest is also the one that seems to have known about this bid and last one early (maybe first?) unless I'm mistaken. If they're batting 1k here and are first with this info it would make sense to keep an eye on their releases

 

[samshere]

I miss the good old days when players were valued at 10m... and we kept getting 7m bids rejected

 

[Doom]

As Gazidis said we can't compete with the top clubs, so we lose RVP and Fabregas without much of a fight and can't force clubs like Lyon and Liverpool into selling their best players. Even if those players want to come to us.

We're the nice guys in the football world.

We weren't so nice when Vermaelen and Debuchy wanted to move to Man Utd and we shipped them off to Barça and Bordeaux.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

42M euros won't be even enough to make Lyon sell Lacazzete, either bid 50M their asking price or just don't bother.

 

[Vinci]

42M euros won't be even enough to make Lyon sell Lacazzete, either bid 50M their asking price or just don't bother.

Should make a final offer of 40M + Sanogo.

 

[olyon9]

42M euros won't be even enough to make Lyon sell Lacazzete, either bid 50M their asking price or just don't bother.

If you think that is the club asking price you will have a surprise if Arsenal really bid that.